Production systems and supply chains are difficult to model at the level of detail required to understand factors affecting the behavior of material flow. This is particularly true when use of centralized planning systems, such as MRP or DRP, is of interest. Therefore a test bed, comprised of a planning module and a simulator module, has been developed. This test bed is designed to be simple, t...

This is the second of a two-part paper dealing with distributed planning for Air Traffic Control. Three different organizational structures have been implemented: the Local, Centralized Architecture, and the Location Centered, Cooperative Planning System with oneand two-level Coordinator-Coworker Hierarchies. We present an initial, simplified analysis of the speedup obtainable by using the latt...

The general approach is quite simple: we convert the unfactored domain and problem file into a classical planning problem such that the privacy of fluents and objects are respected. The translation is both sound and complete, and we solve the encoded problem using a centralized classical planner. None of the factorization is passed to the classical planner, because the encoded problem contains ...

The planning and scheduling of the deicing and anti-icing activities is an important and challenging part of airport departure planning. Deicing planning has to be done in a highly dynamic environment involving several autonomous and self-interested parties. Traditional centralized scheduling approaches do not acknowledge the autonomy of parties involved. We therefore propose an agent-based sch...

Geographical Information System (GIS) is an effective tool for planning and management of a metropolitan city. In developing countries like India, metropolitan governments, planning authorities and parastatals (viz. Water Supply Board, Transport Corporation etc.) have executed GIS projects independently. In recent years, many municipalities in the World have switched from stand-alone GIS system...

Mobile computing is characterised by variations in user needs and in the computing and communication resources. We have developed a middleware centric approach for the development of software capable of dynamically adapting to such variations. The middleware leverages models of needs and resources and the adaptation capabilities of the software and performs context monitoring, adaptation planni...

In Iran, new centralization characteristic, especially during Pahlavi dynasty, has been convergence and its vast use in bureaucracy. Historical sociological studies have consensus on the issues of centralization, power centralization, and political sovereignty in Iran; however, these issues have some divisional interruptions and different levels of strength in some parts of the history. This es...

Energy demand is continuously increasing, leading to yearly expansions in low-voltage (LV) distribution systems integrated with PVs deliver electricity users techno-economic considerations. This study proposes and compares different topology planning strategies without a rural area of Cambodia over 30 years planning. Firstly, the optimal radial from transformer end-users provided using shortest...